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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: New generation of CPUs/graphics/sound (was Re: PowerPC !)
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 10:45:40 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4iu0ck$tdc@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <4ichuq$hhk@hyperion.mfltd.co.uk> <DoCzzM.Kxn@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- Summary: Graphics and sound via processor?
- Keywords: Killing graphic and sound card companies
-
- In article <DoCzzM.Kxn@cix.compulink.co.uk>,
- Jolyon Ralph <jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
- >> >Once we get BOTH AGA and SVGA-type chipsets as standard everyone will
- >> be >happy...
- >>
- >> Well I would but you'll still get some saddo demo coder saying we've
- >> sold our souls to the dark side.
- >
- >Have you seen what's planned as standard in the next generation of PC
- >video chipsets? hardware overlays, interpolated scaling in hardware, huge
- >amounts of fun stuff that demo coders will love!
- >
- >Jolyon
-
- Am I mistaken or did I hear that Intel plans on releasing new
- "Multimedia" processors? Basically it will be a "Pentium Pro" type
- processor with built in graphic and sound chip capabilities. This would
- pretty much standardize graphics and sound on PCs and eliminate a lot of
- 3rd party chip makers from the PC market, especially if Windows rely soley
- on these processors as well.
-
- I heard AT had a similar idea (PPC with AGA chipset built in) which is
- good for backwards compatibility instead of including AGA compatibility
- in a new chipset which is dead now anyways.
-
- -=*George*=-
-
- P.S. Why can't AT talk to a 3rd party chip maker and say we want this and
- that in these chips (state of the art ideas), make it compatible with what
- is on the standard SVGA and sound chipsets along with all AGA Amiga
- modes/options and Amiga specific qualities (as in tell them what is being
- done in the Amiga chipset to get the special effects) to make one huge
- super chipset, let that company totally fund the R&D and production costs
- and when it is all finished, AT buy the rights to the chip set off of
- them so they can solely distribute it but give a certain percentage of
- the sales to the creators of the chips. That way the company gets payed
- back its R&D costs and makes a profit with AT for selling the chips, AT
- first uses them in a future generation Amiga, we have the best of both
- worlds but AT could later sell them to PC companies also. This way AT
- could concentrate now on the making of new computer models and not have
- to worry about funding their new chipset until it is developed and
- hopefully by then they would have enough profit to easily by the rights
- etc. of the new chipset.
-
- -=*George*=-
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